Die for making multiple-orificed clay conduits.



No. 695,377. Patented Mar. 25'7 i902. w. L. hmmm.

DIE FDR MAKING MULTIPLE OHIFBCEU CLAY GONDUITS.

(Application led Nov. 22, 1901.)

(No Model.)v

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llivrTTn blTaTns llaTisnrT @Tricia VILLIAM LEE MCCAREL, OF BRAZIL,INDIANA.

DIE FOI-l MAKEN@ MULTlPLEmRlFlCED CLAY CONDUITS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 696,377, dated March25, 1902.

Application tiled November 22, 1901l Serial No. 83,283. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LEE MGCAREL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brazil, in the county of Clay and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Dies for MakingMultiple- Orificed Clay Conduits, of which the following is aspecification.

My present invention relates to that class 0f clay-working machinery bymeans of which tile and other varieties of clay conduits having amultiplicity of conduit-openings are produced. It is necessary in thesemultiple machines that the inner dies or cores which form the orificesshall be adjusted with great nicety, as slight variations from the exactposition required are apt to produce a curvature or crookedness in theproduct,which is highly objectionable. The cores must be capable ofadjustment both axially and laterally; and it is the object of myinvention to produce dies so constructed that this can be speedily andaccurately accomplished, as will be hereinf after more fully describedand claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part'hereof,and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure1 is a front elevation of a machine of the character in questionprovided with dies embodying my said invention; Fig. 2, ahorizontalsectional View thereof as seen when looking downwardly from the dottedline 2 2 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a detail sectional vieW of one of theinner or core dies separately,on a greatly-enlarged scale,on the dottedline 3 3 in Fig. 1.

The outer die 10, the inner supporting-bars 11 for the inner or coredies, and the shanks 12 to said inner dies, which arev connected to saidbars by the machine-screws 13, are or may be of an ordinary form andarrangement and will not, therefore, be further described herein, eXceptincidentally in `describing the invention.

Heretofore the inner or core dies la have been non-adjustable in respectto the shanks 12. As most plainly shown in Fig. 3, I con nect said diesto said shanks by means of machine-screws 15 and washers 16, the holesthrough the dies being considerably' larger than the diameter of saidscrews, which pass through said holes and into suitable threadedperforations in the Shanks 12. I ain thus enabled by merely looseningthe screws 15 to adjust these inner or core dies laterally in anydirection or revolubly about these screws as axes to the exact pointdesired and secure them to the adjusted position by merely retighteningsaid screws.

Having thus fully described my saidinvention,what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a die for making multiple-oriiiced clay conduits,of a suitable outer' die, suitable supporting-bars extending across saidouter die for carrying the inner or core dies, a plurality of Shanks orstandards of suitable length thereon, and. a plurality of inner or coredies mounted .adjustably upon the outer ends of said shanks orstandards, said inner dies being thus adjustable in respect to the outerdie, revolubly,and toward and from each other, substantially as and forthe purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a machine for making multiple-oriiiced clayconduits,of the lixed outer die 10, transversely-arranged bars l1extending across behind said die for carrying lthe inner or core dies,said. bars being provided with suitable standards or shanks, the inneror core dies 14, connecting-screws 15, and washers 16,the hole in saiddie 14 through which the screws pass being larger in diameter than saidscrews, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Brazil,Indiana, this 15th day of November, A. D. 1901.

WILLIAM LEE MCCAREL.

Vitnesses:

JOHN NORTHWAY, Josnrri V. AYER.

